The "Colonie di vacanza" for children during the fascist era: hegemonic psycho-pedagogic arrangements and architectural space.

[...] The heritage left by a century of "Colonie di vacanza" is partcularly difficult to research, and positively introduce into contemprary society. The "colonie di vacanza" rapresent in fact a vulberable architectural heritage made up of a multitude of building widespread throughtout the European territory [...] These text clearly place the "Europe of the 'Colonie di vacanza'" within the European context; however these text also highlight a "weakness" in terms of knowledge which has not yet been overcome. New studies need to be supported by inventoires amd catalogues related to this widespread heritage in order to provide a direction and generate interventions centred to recognition, preservation and significance of the "Colonie di vacanza" [...] [From "Preface" of V. Balducci, S. Bica, p. 5]